No automatic refresh? (PR#18209)

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Thu Jun 24 16:02:29 GMT 1999


cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU wrote:
> 
> Charles fake email address wrote:
> >
> > I'm exporting /tmp as pub, and if I right click in
> > the folder and create a new folder, it doesn't show
> > up until I go to 'view' and 'refresh'.
> 
> Because of the change_notify SMB command.  Samba does not
> entirely this at the moment I think.  You can check the
> archives for change_notify maybe and find out more infomation.

No that's not true. It does implement it. The smbd will
scan every 'watched' directory every 60 seconds by default
(you can change this with the "change notify timeout"
parameter). Are you sure you're waiting long enough ?

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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